Shieldsup says "failed" Ping Reply: RECEIVED (FAILED) — Your system
REPLIED to our Ping (ICMP Echo) requests, making it visible on the
Internet. Most personal firewalls can be configured to block, drop, and
ignore such ping requests in order to better hide systems from hackers.
This is highly recommended since "Ping" is among the oldest and most
common methods used to locate systems prior to further exploitation.

** Changed in: ubuntu
Sourcepackagename: firefox => None

** Summary changed:

- Shieldsup says "failed" Ping Reply: RECEIVED (FAILED) — Your system REPLIED 
to our Ping (ICMP Echo) requests, making it visible on the Internet. Most 
personal firewalls can be configured to block, drop, and ignore such ping 
requests in order to better hide systems from hackers. This is highly 
recommended since "Ping" is among the oldest and most common methods used to 
locate systems prior to further exploitation.
+ Shieldsup says "failed" when scanning

** Description changed:

- Binary package hint: firefox
- 
- Shieldsup says "failed" when scanning
- 
  https://www.grc.com
  
- ProblemType: Bug
- Architecture: i386
- Date: Fri Jan 25 03:23:04 2008
- DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
- NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
- Package: firefox 2.0.0.11+2nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10
- PackageArchitecture: i386
- SourcePackage: firefox
- Uname: Linux ubuntu33-desktop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 
UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
+ Shieldsup says "failed" Ping Reply: RECEIVED (FAILED) — Your system
+ REPLIED to our Ping (ICMP Echo) requests, making it visible on the
+ Internet. Most personal firewalls can be configured to block, drop, and
+ ignore such ping requests in order to better hide systems from hackers.
+ This is highly recommended since "Ping" is among the oldest and most
+ common methods used to locate systems prior to further exploitation.

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